Evgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny plays into the hands of Russia’s enemies, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday Any attempts by Western nations to “use the domestic Russian situation to achieve their Russophobic goals,” will prove futile, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

News outlets in the US and UK are portraying the insurrection as an existential threat to Vladimir Putin As news of the attempted armed coup by the Wagner private military company filtered out to the West, newspaper columnists and pundits rushed to predict the downfall of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government, a military victory for…

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